Black Quote by Paterson Joseph

We have fixed ideas of Tudor Britain, Victorian and Edwardian Britain as entirely white. But an awful lot of what we know as history…

— Paterson Joseph

I remember when I first came to America, nobody had a clue what a black Englishman was. I was either South African or Australian…

— Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

When I came to England it wasn't what it is now, then the black people were very rarely strong. I had a personal shock…

— Buchi Emecheta

I'm a black person and when I was growing up I went to a school with no other black people and walked past signs…

— Lenny Henry

It sometimes occurs to me that the British have more heritage than isgood for them.

— Bill Bryson

The black presence in our British history has sometimes wilfully, sometimes neglectfully, been whitewashed out of our national tale. This is not only deeply…

— Paterson Joseph

My folks were English. They were too poor to be British. I still have a bit of British in me. In fact, my blood…

— Bob Hope

In 1619, when there are reports about the first blacks brought to British North America, they are referred to as N-I-G-G-U-H-S. Well, it doesn't…

— Randall Kennedy

The black presence in our British history has sometimes wilfully, sometimes neglectfully, been whitewashed out of our national tale.

— Paterson Joseph

I don't use the term "black" very often. I use the term African-American more than I use "black".

— Rick Santorum

The refusal to accept that the black presence in Britain has a long and deep history is not just a symptom of racism, it…

— David Olusoga

For my mother, everything stands in relation to her Welshness; the fact she married an Englishman seems to be something of an issue. She's…

— Ben Miller